But full three months must have passed since information was sent to me of an English patient, received at the hospital here, whose case I, as English consul, might feel an interest in investigating.
"'I went the same day to the hospital, and was taken to the bedside.
"'The patient was a woman--young, and (when in health), I should think, very pretty.

When I first saw her she looked, to my uninstructed eye, like a dead woman.

I noticed that her head had a bandage over it, and I asked what was the nature of the injury that she had received.

The answer informed me that the poor creature had been present, nobody knew why or wherefore, at a skirmish or night attack between the Germans and the French, and that the injury to her head had been inflicted by a fragment of a German shell.'" Horace--thus far leaning back carelessly in his chair--suddenly raised himself and exclaimed, "Good heavens! can this be the woman I saw laid out for dead in the French cottage ?" "It is impossible for me to say," replied Julian.

"Listen to the rest of it.